Life is not like a box of chocolates, regardless of what Forrest Gump may tell you.
Life is like a bonsai tree.

Are there any other closet Karate Kid fans in the house?  Pipe up–there’s no shame here.
It’s easy to let social media participation grow like kudzu until it completely takes over your life.  Like any thing [...]

Thanks to Twitter, I will no longer have to suffer the indignity of cutting tomatoes with a dull knife.
As you’ve no doubt surmised, (not to be confused with “summize“) there’s a story behind that statement.
Last week, I noticed that I had reached 400 followers on Twitter, the microblogging tool.  While it’s still a small number [...]

Remember the Deanna Carter song from a few years back, “Did I Shave My Legs for This?”
There were a few points during this week’s ad:tech Chicago conference when I was thinking “Did I brave air travel for this?”
Overall, I was somewhat disappointed with ad:tech Chicago, billed as “The Event for Digital Marketing!” (Be sure to [...]

This post actually started out in my head as a comment on Jason’s great post last week entitled Social Media Is The Responsibility of Public Relations. The post sparked some great discussion in the comments, with a lot of opinions on both sides. I think Jason’s main point was to cattle-prod his PR brethren into [...]

I won’t lie.  There are many sweet aspects to the gig here with Jason.  (Not the least of which is getting to hang out with cool folks like Jake McKee.)
Being a geek, one of the more fun aspects for me is getting to test drive and evaluate new social media tools. I’ve gotten the opportunity [...]